too many people's plan for when fascism comes to america seems to be to wait for the corpse of vladimir ilyich ulyanov to rise up and lead us in a rousing chorus of do you hear the people sing
the trick about building power to resist these guys is that you have to recognize both that the normal forms and orders of american law are malleable and contingent, and yet also any power-building you do is going to have to take advantage of those forms and orders
there is a reason, for instance, that the american revolution itself took place via the mechanism of the colonies and colonial governments even as it was precisely "colonial government" that it aimed to destroy and overthrow
